Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow is an example of a classic WMS game with this feature.

Mystery Stacked Symbols: Some games will use a variant of stacked symbols where a symbol is chosen each spin.

Aristocrat and Shuffle Master have built solid reputations designing games in this vein. This is what makes games like Buffalo, Timber Wolf and 88 Fortunes so amazing when it hits. When combined with All Ways Pays, it can be a holy grail of volatility.

Stacked Symbols (when combined with All Ways Pays): Stacked symbols can either boost or lower volatility, and it generally comes down to the format of the game.

But that also means a lot of near misses and dead spins in return.

All Ways Pays: The scatter pay model where you can “win 243 ways” or “1024 ways” and so on can increase the volatility, especially when multiple symbols can call in a given column, because line hits can quickly multiply their way into big wins.

But that means dead (non-winning) spins to make up for it. Think of a game like Buffalo, where wilds in the right spots, and clumped together, can yield pretty hefty pays.

Multipliers: The use of multipliers can make a game more volatile, especially when the multipliers stack.

But when you also have a feature with winning potential (think the Links, Mighty Cash, Hot Shot and Quick Hit, etc.), you now have pays being pulled even further out of the line hits and being diverted to the features, and the bonus, and potentially the progressives… that doesn’t leave a ton for line hits.

Some slots, like Twin Win and Bonus Times, don’t even have a bonus, so all the money’s in the line hits. Games with Both Features and Bonuses: Many earlier slots only had something like a free spins bonus, if they had a bonus at all.Regardless of the style ( Must Hit By, Quick Hit, progressives that grow by bets, etc.), they pull some of the pays away from the line hits and bonuses in favor of incrementing the progressive.

Progressives: Progressives will take a portion of the overall payout and lock it up in potentially difficult to hit progressives.

There are a number of ways you can potentially spot a more volatile game in its natural habitat (the casino floor): Sometimes it’s the traits of how they are designed, sometimes it’s a studio known for a certain type of game. That said, there are some giveaways that can help indicate a slot is more or less volatile. can be very different in gameplay style and, therefore, the volatility and how they pay out in the short term. Seemingly games that look similar in terms of graphics, symbols, etc. Understanding which slots are volatile can seem like an impossible task, just by looking around the casino floor.

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